On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Jeff Chan wrote:
These grey cases are frankly a distraction from the goal of stopping the worst offenders and the biggest criminals. They also miss the biggest abusers. The priority should be on catching the biggest, most abusive spammers, and excluding the grey cases which confuse that effort and make it difficult for SURBLs to be more widely adopted due to false positives.
100% agree! There is a reason many isp's and web hosts use spamhaus as a block at the MTA level, because the low FP rate is amazing. With SURBL, there is a strong possibility that with very low FP rates, it can be the number two tool for isp's and hosts to cut out large volumes of junk without impacting the every day users (some who like jokes every day).
Jeff, stick to your guns, work on getting these zombies out of our daily lives, and you'll have the best anti-spam tool on the market.
Rob Mangiafico CTO LexiConn